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‘The Department for Education and Skills has already warned that any pupil missing school to attend a demonstration would be treated as truants and headteachers have warned that they could face expulsion.’

‘The school collaborates with a charity to inspire and re-engage underachieving pupils and chronic truants.’

‘But she wonders if ministers quite understand the real world when she hears ideas such as head teachers' issuing fixed penalty notice fines to truants ' parents.’

‘Plans to jail the parents of persistent truants have been dismissed as unworkable - by the pupils themselves.’

‘Some students have been warned that they will be treated as truants.’

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‘During this summer's World Cup, big screen televisions were set up in the city's classrooms in an attempt to stop children truanting to watch football matches.’

‘Boys who had been truanting and priding themselves on being cheeky and ‘hard ‘turned out to be brilliant at woodwork.’

‘What is clear is that students who are doing well at school and are engaged and focused do not truant.’

‘The majority of these parents knew of the absence but about 20 pupils were found to be truanting.’

‘A young person can end up facing a children's panel - or ‘hearing’ - for criminal activity, truanting, running away from home or equally because they are at risk from physical abuse or neglect.’

‘In North Yorkshire, the figures were a little better with 17 children found truanting, eight of whom were with an adult.’

‘Ideas put forward yesterday for future use of new technology included allowing parents to check online whether their children are truanting, increasing online tax payments and more use of computers in the health service.’

‘For a few fleeting seconds, she considered truanting, but common sense triumphed over her emotions.’

‘In the last academic year 696, 328 pupils truanted or were absent without permission, on average for 15 half days.’

‘In Scotland, statistics have shown that around 7% of young people truanted frequently, 17% occasionally, and 28% rarely.’

‘He said that his dad had kicked him out because he'd been truanting and hanging around with a gang of boys, getting into trouble.’

‘Unfortunately, however, a surprisingly large number of parents are not only already aware that their children are truanting, they actively condone it.’

‘We will take action against those who are persistently truanting or who are late for school.’

‘He said: ‘We often catch children that are quite vulnerable, they often truant because they have a problem at home and by catching them we can deal with that.’’

‘She soon began truanting and going missing for increasingly long periods of time.’

‘Many of these children aren't at school - either because they have been excluded or are truanting.’

‘Parents who repeatedly fail to keep their children in school will be hauled back to the classroom and given lessons on bringing up youngsters, under a radical plan to stop truanting.’

‘Youngsters truanted for all sorts of reasons including bullying, domestic violence, family illness and basic issues like failing to do homework, she said.’

‘Far from truanting because they are stupid, it turns out many truant because they are clever.’

‘We will not be coming in with a hard approach, but want to work with parents to stop truanting.’